Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 80 51
Rank change year-on-year -40 -29 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,232 1,807 3,391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.88% 3.56% 4.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.88% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 834 1,027 2,745
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,312 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -13.62%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,125 £112,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,183 46,628 65,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.83% 91.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 30,949 22,565 51,052
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 8 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -23 1,130 £77,500 +6.90% 532
London +12 644 £87,500 +2.94% 229
Work from Home -25 535 £75,000 +7.14% 349
UK excluding London -91 497 £70,000 +3.70% 391
North of England -34 222 £70,000 +2.94% 114
North West -20 115 £67,500 -3.57% 70
South East -120 89 £75,000 +11.11% 145
Yorkshire -41 87 £75,000 +7.14% 26
Midlands -32 63 £72,500 +11.54% 44
South West -54 57 £67,500 -1.50% 50
West Midlands -3 37 £71,250 +14.00% 29
East of England -5 32 £77,500 +34.78% 19
Scotland -77 27 £60,000 -19.86% 19
East Midlands -48 24 £68,000 +4.62% 14
North East -11 20 £70,000 +33.33% 18
Wales -5 6 £54,185 +22.19% 6
Northern Ireland -27 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 26 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.95%) Apache
4 21 (1.70%) Confluence
5 13 (1.06%) JBoss
5 13 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.89%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.81%) CMS
8 7 (0.57%) Appian
8 7 (0.57%) IIS
9 5 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.41%) nginx
10 3 (0.24%) Liferay
10 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.081%) Camunda
12 1 (0.081%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 20 (1.62%) Maya
2 16 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.32%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.38%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.73%) Endur
3 8 (0.65%) SAP FS
4 6 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.24%) Shopify
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.081%) Actimize
7 1 (0.081%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.081%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.081%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.081%) Quorum
7 1 (0.081%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.081%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 666 (54.06%) AWS
2 578 (46.92%) Azure
3 230 (18.67%) GCP
4 222 (18.02%) Serverless
5 173 (14.04%) SaaS
6 122 (9.90%) GitHub
7 113 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
9 91 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
9 91 (7.39%) Amazon S3
10 63 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
10 63 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
12 57 (4.63%) PaaS
13 51 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 38 (3.08%) IaaS
16 37 (3.00%) Power Platform
17 35 (2.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.06%) HTTP
2 11 (0.89%) Broadband
3 9 (0.73%) AMQP
4 6 (0.49%) Internet
5 4 (0.32%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.32%) SNMP
5 4 (0.32%) WAN
6 3 (0.24%) Multicast
7 2 (0.16%) MQTT
7 2 (0.16%) SSL
8 1 (0.081%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.081%) DHCP
8 1 (0.081%) DNS
8 1 (0.081%) Firewall
8 1 (0.081%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.081%) LTE
8 1 (0.081%) Network Security
8 1 (0.081%) TCAP
8 1 (0.081%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (13.88%) NoSQL
2 154 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 134 (10.88%) MongoDB
4 125 (10.15%) SQL Server
5 66 (5.36%) DynamoDB
6 61 (4.95%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
8 48 (3.90%) MySQL
9 40 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (2.68%) Redis
11 28 (2.27%) Big Data
12 23 (1.87%) Power BI
13 22 (1.79%) BigQuery
14 21 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (1.70%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.46%) Tableau
16 17 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
17 14 (1.14%) DB2
18 12 (0.97%) Pinecone
19 10 (0.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 157 (12.74%) Git
2 114 (9.25%) Jenkins
3 60 (4.87%) GitLab
4 53 (4.30%) JIRA
5 39 (3.17%) JUnit
6 38 (3.08%) TeamCity
7 37 (3.00%) Cucumber
8 36 (2.92%) Selenium
9 25 (2.03%) Cypress.io
10 22 (1.79%) Bitbucket
10 22 (1.79%) Mockito
11 20 (1.62%) CircleCI
12 19 (1.54%) JMeter
13 17 (1.38%) Maven
13 17 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.89%) Postman
15 10 (0.81%) Vite
16 9 (0.73%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.65%) git-flow
17 8 (0.65%) LoadRunner
General
1 371 (30.11%) Finance
2 367 (29.79%) Social Skills
3 138 (11.20%) Banking
4 110 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (8.85%) Law
6 75 (6.09%) Public Sector
7 56 (4.55%) Retail
8 52 (4.22%) Financial Institution
9 44 (3.57%) Games
10 43 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 42 (3.41%) Telecoms
12 37 (3.00%) Back Office
13 27 (2.19%) French Language
14 26 (2.11%) Dutch Language
15 25 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (1.79%) Billing
18 18 (1.46%) Legal
19 17 (1.38%) Advertising
20 14 (1.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 419 (34.01%) Developer
2 310 (25.16%) Senior
3 236 (19.16%) Architect
4 226 (18.34%) Software Engineer
5 168 (13.64%) Lead
6 116 (9.42%) Solutions Architect
7 112 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 105 (8.52%) Java Developer
9 102 (8.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 91 (7.39%) .NET Developer
11 82 (6.66%) Senior Software Engineer
12 72 (5.84%) Java Engineer
13 50 (4.06%) Lead Developer
14 48 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 44 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
16 43 (3.49%) Software Developer
17 41 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 40 (3.25%) Java Software Engineer
18 40 (3.25%) Principal Engineer
19 37 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (24.59%) .NET
1 303 (24.59%) React
2 249 (20.21%) RESTful
3 221 (17.94%) Spring
4 214 (17.37%) REST
5 194 (15.75%) Spring Boot
6 183 (14.85%) Kafka
7 182 (14.77%) Node.js
8 134 (10.88%) AngularJS
9 112 (9.09%) .NET Core
10 83 (6.74%) HTML
11 73 (5.93%) .NET Framework
12 68 (5.52%) ASP.NET
13 63 (5.11%) RabbitMQ
14 61 (4.95%) CSS
14 61 (4.95%) Middleware
15 59 (4.79%) ASP.NET Web API
16 53 (4.30%) gRPC
17 50 (4.06%) Hibernate
18 48 (3.90%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 325 (26.38%) Cloud Native
2 193 (15.67%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (10.96%) Enterprise Software
4 106 (8.60%) Product Ownership
5 52 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 37 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (2.68%) Algorithms
9 29 (2.35%) Blockchain
9 29 (2.35%) Virtual Team
10 26 (2.11%) AI Agents
10 26 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
11 19 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.30%) Management Information System
12 16 (1.30%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.14%) IoT
13 14 (1.14%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.14%) Onboarding
14 12 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.22%) Linux
2 20 (1.62%) Android
2 20 (1.62%) Windows
3 11 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.41%) CentOS
4 5 (0.41%) Debian
4 5 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.16%) VMS
6 1 (0.081%) Fedora
6 1 (0.081%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (47.48%) CI/CD
2 572 (46.43%) Agile
3 499 (40.50%) DevOps
4 432 (35.06%) Software Engineering
5 314 (25.49%) Containerisation
6 300 (24.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 268 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
8 266 (21.59%) Mentoring
9 250 (20.29%) AI
10 229 (18.59%) Event-Driven
11 214 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 203 (16.48%) Test Automation
13 199 (16.15%) Computer Science
14 159 (12.91%) Scrum
15 153 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
16 152 (12.34%) TDD
17 150 (12.18%) Roadmaps
18 145 (11.77%) Infrastructure as Code
19 144 (11.69%) Architectural Patterns
20 135 (10.96%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 428 (34.74%) Java
2 285 (23.13%) Python
3 280 (22.73%) SQL
4 278 (22.56%) C#
5 259 (21.02%) JavaScript
6 223 (18.10%) TypeScript
7 76 (6.17%) Go
8 30 (2.44%) PL/SQL
9 28 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 27 (2.19%) PHP
11 26 (2.11%) C++
12 25 (2.03%) Bash
12 25 (2.03%) C
13 20 (1.62%) Ruby
14 16 (1.30%) Kotlin
14 16 (1.30%) Scala
15 15 (1.22%) Rust
16 13 (1.06%) PowerShell
17 9 (0.73%) Bicep
18 6 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 214 (17.37%) Degree
2 140 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 103 (8.36%) Security Cleared
4 76 (6.17%) SC Cleared
5 66 (5.36%) AWS Certification
6 54 (4.38%) Master's Degree
7 48 (3.90%) TOGAF Certification
8 45 (3.65%) Azure Certification
9 38 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 33 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.97%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.89%) CISSP
14 10 (0.81%) CISM
15 9 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.73%) PMP
16 6 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.49%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.25%) QA
2 24 (1.95%) GDPR
3 22 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 16 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.89%) NCSC
6 10 (0.81%) IFRS
6 10 (0.81%) NIST
6 10 (0.81%) SLA
7 8 (0.65%) EMIR
7 8 (0.65%) IFRS 17
7 8 (0.65%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.57%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.24%) SEPA
11 3 (0.24%) WCAG
12 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 367 (29.79%) Docker
2 14 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.081%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 367 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 211 (17.13%) Terraform
3 62 (5.03%) Grafana
4 48 (3.90%) Ansible
5 26 (2.11%) Kibana
6 23 (1.87%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.14%) Argo
9 8 (0.65%) Puppet
10 4 (0.32%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.32%) Istio
10 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.24%) Rancher
12 2 (0.16%) Nagios
Vendors
1 170 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.11%) Oracle
3 39 (3.17%) Google
4 20 (1.62%) Guidewire
5 19 (1.54%) OpenAI
5 19 (1.54%) Salesforce
5 19 (1.54%) SAP
6 16 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (1.30%) Splunk
7 15 (1.22%) BiZZdesign
7 15 (1.22%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.14%) Software AG
9 13 (1.06%) MuleSoft
10 12 (0.97%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.97%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.89%) Duck Creek
11 11 (0.89%) IBM
11 11 (0.89%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.81%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.73%) Adobe